Between Two Question Marks

The narrator tells us that he's been bullied because of his shyness. He's hiding in the library because the librarian will chase him out if he does nothing and plays around. He reads a love novel, which he finds more interesting than he expected. The narrator and Dohee are back in class, and the narrator is surprised to find that they haven't been seeing each other in a while. He asks if they're in a "kind of relationship" , and she says that they aren't. They're not in the same kind of relationship, she says, which is why they've been avoiding each other for the past few days. She's also surprised to see that she's reading a book, which she thinks is a "love novel" . She asks if she can go back to class with him, and he says yes. He tells her that he hasn't seen her for a while, but that it's because he has been avoiding her for the last few days . He says that he came to the library to read the book, not to see her, but to see if he can get back together with her. He doesn't want to be in a relationship with her, he says, so they can't go back and forth like they did in the book. He wants to know what's going to happen to them in the future, and if they will be together. He wonders if she'll ever come back to him on her own, and then he asks if he'll be a "child" like she is. He also asks if the fight he had with her the day before was because of her being shy. She says that's why she fought with him that day, too, and that she doesn